I was agreeing with him that it was a mistake, though we probably disagree about exactly why.

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I absolutely don’t “dismiss” the entirety of academic social science! But you have to read the results through the lens of the basic reality of the biases of the fields and not just take things at face value in a naive way.

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I feel like Grumbach was getting pretty harsh himself! And I really do think I erred earlier in my career by promulgating a pretty naive version of “here’s an empirical paper with a progressive upshot, take that result to the bank.”

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I absolutely regret my role in this — it turns out that academic social science is shot through with dramatically more ideological bias than I realized 20-15 years ago and all the stuff you guys churn out should come with huge warning labels before it’s presented to laypeople.

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I was wrong, I think mostly because I find prestige lawyers incredibly annoying so I was biased.

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